Intermediate Mobile Developer

We are Edify, one of the highest-ranked IT companies in Costa Rica and Central America.

We're a consolidated technology services consulting firm specializing in education technology. We deliver unbelievably creative and rock-solid solutions for a wide range of clients, including major corporations, startups, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations.

We help our clients design, build and run some of the most interesting ventures in the industry while promoting a warm, friendly and cooperative culture. Work and life should definitely be balanced, so we're serious about cultivating a great work environment.

Responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, maintaining, evaluating and assuring quality and performance specific components of software systems.

Roles, Responsibilities and Key Functions:

Analyze together with your team the project requirements.
Estimate together with your team the effort needed to implement the analyzed requirement.

Design and program together with your team the software components that implement the analyzed requirements.

Verify compliance with the requirements and the correct functioning of the developed components as specified.

Analyze system defects to find their causes and correct them.

Design and implement unit, integration and system tests with the help of the team.

Verify the correct functioning of the code tests and apply corrections where appropriate.

Ensure that code tests are kept up-to-date with respect to changes introduced by the components developed.

Work with your team to determine data storage, processing and transmission needs according to the requirements analyzed.

Document technical and process aspects related to your day-to-day work (technical documentation, report of estimates and timesheets, workflows, etc.).

Integrate the developed components with the rest of the system (frontend and backend integration, among others).

Perform peer review of your teammates’ code.

Follow processes and standards for code management.

Intermediate knowledge in: 

• Object-oriented, functional, procedural, and asynchronous programming paradigms

• Software engineering processes

• Concepts and processes related to software quality

• Use of agile software development methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)

• Software quality assurance (code testing, linting, static code analysis)

• Design patterns

• Best development practices to ensure efficiency, quality, and maintainability

• Best practices and mechanisms for application deployment

• Security, authentication, and authorization mechanisms

• OWASP Top 10

• Best practices for error handling

• Documentation (design diagrams, README.md, API documentation, etc.)

• Integration of software services and components

• Internationalization

• REST

• Real-time data handling

• Multitenancy

• Handling the *nix shell (bash, sh, zsh, etc.)

• Git

• Dependency management tools (Gradle, Maven, NPM, Yarn, CocoaPods, etc.)

• Continuous integration process tools (Github Actions, GitlabCI, etc.)

• Git branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based, etc.)

• Use of virtualization (KVM, QEMU, VirtualBox, etc.)

• Use of containers (Docker, Podman, runc, etc.)

• Cloud computing services (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

• Programming languages

Swift

• Frameworks

SwiftUI

• Testing libraries

Swift Testing

• Development tools

Xcode

• SQL

• Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, etc.)

• NoSQL databases (Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, etc.)

Benefits:

• 100% work remote from any part in Costa Rica.
• Digital Nomad.
• Monthly Internet connectivity allowance.
• Private health insurance for employees (90/10), 50% for beneficiaries (spouse and children).
• International Health Insurance.
• Marriage leave.
• Bereavement leave.
• Sick days.
• Ergonomic equipment.
• Educational assistance (courses, certifications, books).
• Life insurance for employees.
• $800 referral bonus.
• Personal support through our wellness department.
• Dental insurance.
• Optical insurance.
• Snacks and beverages if you want to work at the office.
• Free Parking.
• Meal allowance if you want to work at the office.
• Flex time
• Our Career Development Manager ensures ongoing, tailored support for each employee’s growth and career progression.

Edify is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage all candidates to apply regardless of their sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national identity, disability, age, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status or any other characteristic protected by law.